PUZZLE #561
LUCKY SEVENS 15
Before we get to the directions, I wanted to alert you all that there's been a small change in them. Normally, the FINAL ANSWER is read in the colored squares using the numeric order of the seven Sevens. However, I was unable to get a proper word out of my usual extraction system this time, so I had to resort to having the FINAL ANSWER be read backwards. I put this warning here (and on this puzzle's original post back on my Patreon page) because I'm just paranoid that any solvers who have done this type of puzzle multiple times would go into autopilot and thus get confused that the colored squares don't seem to make a proper word this time. I don't know if those worries of mine would've been justified or not, but what's done is done, so now it's time to get to the directions proper (which aren't nearly as long as this opening paragraph!).
Stacked together below are seven Sevens made up of 7 squares each. The answers to each Seven start in their respectively numbered squares and continue along its path surrounded by a bold outline, going right and then down. Meanwhile, the answers to the Rows go straight across the grid, including those with only one or two letters in them.
Once you've filled in the grid, read the letters in the colored squares in the reverse order of the Sevens that they appear in (in accordance of the colors of the rainbow, starting with the red square in the Seven marked with a 7) to get this week's FINAL ANSWER: a seven-letter place
ROWS
i) "Mad" messy-haired witch from Disney's The Sword in the Stone
ii) Chimpanzee who escaped from a Serbian zoo twice (or the first parts of a Green Eggs and Ham character)
iii) Birth year of the Roman emperor Claudius, which is about a decade before AD started: 2 wds.
iv) Skyscraper's supporting beam
v) Alex Keaton's "material girl" of a sister in Family Ties
vi) _____ for Godot (play whose title character never shows up)
vii) Giant sea monsters seen in both versions of Clash of the Titans
viii) Credit card company whose cards have a dove hologram on them
ix) Actor Barinholtz who won both Celebrity Jeopardy and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
x) Musical note before the scale loops back to "do"
xi) Letter above a sleeping comic strip character's head
SEVENS
1) "Fly Away" and "Dig In" rock singer Lenny
2) Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii
3) Adjective for a falcon statuette in a Humphrey Bogart movie
4) "_____ Country Song" (platinum-certified country single that hates bro-country): 3 wds.
5) Muscle-to-bone connectors
6) Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy
7) Copycat's talent
Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a link to a .PDF version which you can print out!
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